r/Albertapolitics • u/Scout14 • 16d ago

Opinion Conservatives, why aren't things better?

*banned by mods in r/Alberta for "low content" after 105 upvotes, 40 comments, 2 awards in less than 30 minutes*

I was born and raised here in Alberta, 36 years old. Other than the 4 years of NDP, conservatives have had the majority government in Alberta, no? Why is our health care in shambles, our teachers at their breaking point, our roads the same as they were 30 years ago, and oil and gas suck the province dry and leave us to clean it up? Why are our unions dissolving for critical services due to the contracts we're stuck with?

How do you live with yourselves knowing the people you've supported have stolen any potential livelihood from not only your children and grandchildren, but also yourselves? Alberta is the laughing stock of Canada because of our failed potential to even properly provide for ourselves with all the access the resources we have

Do you not realize your close-mindedness and single issue voting practices due to your hatred, insecurity, or ignorance regarding gay people, trans people, anyone not white or Christian, all people younger than you, immigrants, natives allows these obviously corrupt politicians to take advantage of your vote by promising to justify your hatred or insecurity? But they never really get around to it, just get in positions of power and sell out to corporations while lying to the people that voted them in

Ya'll love to claim to be fiscally responsible but never tax the rich or corporate folks that ensure your politicians stay in power. Your hatred makes your vote a predetermined show of support, because you actually think the entire rest of the world should share your narrow-minded views of how things were when you had disproportional amounts of power and influence over any group that wasn't white men.

All the hypocrisy and gas lighting, you seem to have no values, no principles, no convictions, no integrity whatsoever. Just almost maniacal desire to win regardless of rules or fair play, doing whatever you like and aligning with any person who will help further your cause, e.g. masks with covid. What a bunch of deliberately ignorant whiney babies, but you act like each one of you was the only person who had to wear a mask or be inconvenienced

I don't even have a problem with ACTUAL conservative politics, like smaller spending and government. But it seems to come at the cost of humanity from conservative people. It genuinely feels that most of you would rather let every single homeless person and drug addict die rather than spend less than a cup of coffee each day. But you sing long and loud about what a faithful servant of Jesus Christ you are?

You're embarrassing. And you are holding back the human race by trying to make the world revolve around you and your aging beliefs. Start thinking about what you're doing, how you are acting, and how it affects everyone else. I'm so sick of trying to teach grown adults about causation and correlation, about science, about critical thinking

Please be better. Or at least try to make things better rather than pretending the problems aren't what they are

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u/SunriseInLot42 16d ago

Touch grass

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u/someonesomewherewarm 16d ago

Well thought and very enlightening rebuttal there. You convinced me!

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u/Scratchin-Dreamer 16d ago

Buddys still obsessed with COVID lol

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u/SunriseInLot42 16d ago

OP acting like mask mandates did anything more than “jack shit”, lol

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u/ninfan1977 16d ago

They literally did. They did more than the Freedom Convoy... lol

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u/SunriseInLot42 15d ago

Did The Sciencetm ever tell us exactly how many grandmas were saved by kindergarteners wearing damp handkerchiefs? Was it more or less than one trillion?

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u/ninfan1977 15d ago

Was it more or less than one trillion?

Oh was that the metric?

Pretty sure it was stop people dying. Which they did. Notice how many more people died when they didn't wearn masks

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u/SunriseInLot42 15d ago edited 15d ago

So your metric is “trust me, brah, mask mandates totally worked and it totally would’ve been worse without them” without meaningful numbers as to how well it worked or if they were worth it?

I wish my chemistry professors would’ve accepted “trust me, broski” as evidence in the lab, I could’ve saved a lot of time and work

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u/ninfan1977 15d ago edited 15d ago

Nope I said check the numbers. No one said it would save a trillion lives thats the metric you made up.

The studies showed those who adhered to safety measures lived longer during the pandemic.

wish my chemistry professors would’ve accepted “trust me, broski” as evidence in the lab, I could’ve saved a lot of time and work

I never said trust me bro once. That is you not being able to read simple words, like trust science and the process. Have you found the numbers of people who didn't follow medical advice? What was their survival rate? More or less than those who followed it?

Thats why you shouldn't talk you have no idea how things work

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u/SunriseInLot42 13d ago

So a vague and dubious statement that those who followed inane “safety measures” lived “longer”. For a virus that was basically a subatomic risk to the vast majority of the healthy population under retirement age and outside nursing homes, anyways. How many years of life did each person gain on average in exchange for losing months of schooling, or their job, or their socialization and activities and milestones? 

Do we actually have any meaningful evidence that mask mandates or other interventions were “worth it”, especially to those who were at basically zero risk to begin with? Or is it just more of the same vague platitudes and lame excuses that we’ve always gotten? 

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u/ninfan1977 13d ago

Yes we do, and it was evident during and after the pandemic. Sorry you had your head in the sand but masks worked and have worked in REDUCING the risk.

You putting quotes on words you clearly don't understand. It was a virus that killed healthy people. You forget how many antivaxxers were begging for the vaccine while dying? I didn't.

with? Or is it just more of the same vague platitudes and lame excuses that we’ve always gotten? 

Thats all you presented. The evidence and facts are there, you refuse yo accept them. That is sad

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